Come, my friends (William Horsley)
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- (Posted 2024-03-01) CPDL #79338:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-01). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 327 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: SATB version.
General Information
Title: Come, my friends
Composer: William Horsley
Lyricist: Christopher Smart
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
2nd published: 1867 Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
Description: “Haymaker’s glee”
Originally AATTB; SATB version attributed to the composer.
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Original text and translations
English text
Come, my friends, let us work,
And all hands to the fork,
While the sun shines, our hay-cocks to make;
So fine is the day
And so fragrant the hay,
That the meadow’s as blithe as the wake.
Our voices let’s raise in Phoebus’s praise,
Inspir’d by so glorious a theme,
Our musical words shall be join’d by the birds,
And we’ll dance to the tune of the stream.